The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

118 The Gates Ajar.
the Immaculate Conception; he seems to be
having a good time of it, in genuine babyfashion. The truth is, that the ordinary idea,
if sifted accurately, reduces our eternal personality to -gas.
"Isaac Taylor holds, that, as far as the abstract idea of spirit is concerned, it may just
as reasonably be granite as ether.
"Mrs. Charles says a pretty thing about
this. She thinks these' super-spiritualized
angels' very' unsatisfactory' beings, and that'the heart returns with loving obstinacy to
the young men in long white garments' who
sat waiting in the sepulchre.
"Here again I cling to my conjecture about
the word'angel'; for then we should learn emphatically something about our future selves.
"' As the angels in heaven,' or'equal unto
the angels,' we are told in another place,-that
may mean simply what it says. At least, if
we are to resemble them in the particular
respect of which the words were spoken,and that one of the most important which
could well be selected,-it is not unreasonable
to infer that we shall resemble them in others.'In the Resurrection,' by the way, means, in
that connection and in many others, simply